Performing Instant Recovery

Veeam Backup & Replication allows you to use the Instant Recovery feature to restore Azure VMs from image-level backups to VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments, or to Nutanix AHV clusters. For more information, see Instant Recovery to VMware vSphere and the Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV User Guide, section Instant Recovery.

Important

Instant Recovery can be performed only using either of the following backups:

Backup files stored in standard backup repositories for which you have specified Microsoft Azure storage account credentials. To learn how to specify credentials for the repositories, see sections Creating New Repositories and Connecting to Existing Appliances.
Backup files stored in storage vaults for which you have registered the backup server in Veeam Data Cloud and assigned the storage vault to this backup server. To learn how to register a backup server in Veeam Data Cloud Vault and assign storage vaults, see sections Adding Storage Vaults Using Using Console and Connecting to Existing Appliances.

Before you start the restore operation, make sure to add to the backup infrastructure a vCenter Server, a Microsoft Hyper-V server, or a Nutanix AHV cluster that will manage restored VMs. To learn how to add servers or clusters to Veeam Backup & Replication, see Adding VMware vSphere Servers, Adding Microsoft Hyper-V Servers or Adding Nutanix AHV Cluster.

To perform Instant Recovery, do the following:

In the Veeam Backup & Replication console, open the Home view.
Navigate to Backups > External Repository.
Expand the backup policy that protects an Azure VM that you want to recover, select the necessary VM and click Instant Recovery on the ribbon.
Select VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V or Nutanix AHV.

Depending on the selected Instant Recovery option, complete the Instant Recovery wizard as described in Performing Instant Recovery of Workloads to VMware vSphere VMs, Performing Instant Recovery of Workloads to Hyper-V VMs or Performing Instant Recovery of Workloads to Nutanix AHV.